Pete Davidson hosted the Season 49 premiere of “Saturday Night Live” with a somber tribute to the littlest victims of the war in Israel — and blink-or-you’ll-miss-them cameos from tabloid darlings Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.
The “SNL” alum prefaced his cold opening by saying the tragic slayings of Israeli and Palestinian civilians reminded him of a “really horrible, horrible” time in his own life — when his own FDNY father was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks.
“I don’t understand it. I really don’t and I never will. But sometimes comedy is really the only way forward through tragedy,” Davidson, 29, said.
“My heart is with everyone whose lives have been destroyed this week. But tonight, I’m gonna do what I’ve always done in the face of tragedy, and that’s try to be fun.
“Remember, I said try.”